August 12, 2022
As three-time Grammy-nominated hard rock quartet Nothing More gear up to hit the road later this month alongside In This Moment, the band have shared a fourth new track, You Don’t Know What Love Means, from their upcoming album Spirits– out October 14th.
The impassioned song examines what happens when one tries to make a one-sided relationship work with all-too-real lyric – “I can’t sleep, I can’t eat, there’s no rest, there’s no peace”—which leads into front-man Jonny Hawkins’ fervently belting out its chorus, “You don’t know what love means, and it’s killing me.” Love it.
“We’re glad this song is finally getting out there so we can dig into the emotional and intimate side of the album,” says Hawkins. “The lyrics and tone of this one feels like it hits in a similar way that Go To War and Jenny did. It’s going to feel huge playing this next one on tour.”
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You Don’t Know What Love Means follows previously released album tracks Spirits and Turn It Up Like. The lead-off track Tired Of Winning is currently #6 on Billboard’s Active Rock chart, and the extended version, Tired Of Winning / Ships In The Night, is also included on The Retaliators Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for Better Noise Film’s upcoming horror-thriller The Retaliators.
Spirits combines Nothing More’s unapologetically massive anthems, catchy hooks, and progressive music with introspective, philosophical lyrics and thought-provoking emotionalism. Its eleven tracks were co-written by all band members – Hawkins, Mark Vollelunga on guitar, Daniel Oliver on bass, and Ben Anderson on drums – and their longtime manager and co-producer Will Hoffman.
The album documents the tumultuous time the world experienced over the past two years capturing the desperation and isolation of lock-down, the spiral of substance abuse, the pain of broken relationships, and survival in self-reliance while summarising the overall story and mission of Nothing More : Reflect, Provoke, Inspire.
Nothing More will bring their mesmerising live performance, including their crowd favourite Scorpion Tail (a 400-pound, 14-foot MIDI controller constructed out of salvaged metal scraps by bassist Daniel Oliver that allows Hawkins to control the music while delivering his theatrical stage presence)—to audiences across the United States later this month as they kick off a three-month tour in direct support of In This Moment from August 26th to October 23rd.
During the run, Nothing More will branch off for a handful of headlining shows with support from British rockers Sleep Token and rock & roll burlesque dance troupe Cherry Bombs, in addition to dropping in at a few of rock’s biggest festivals, including Louder Than Life, Rocklahoma, Aftershock and Blue Ridge Rock Festival. Tickets are on sale now.
Pre-order’s for the new album, Spirits, are available now – just click here.
